NATO forces struck an insurgent compound in rare violence one province north of Kabul, and fighting continued in the area on Saturday, a NATO official said. Taliban fighters, meanwhile, attacked a convoy of supply vehicles going to a NATO base, killing two Pakistani drivers on Friday, while nine Taliban insurgents and one Afghan soldier were killed in other violence the last several days, the Ministry of Defense said. Close air support was used Friday to strike a compound north of Kabul that was holding eight to 10 insurgents, said Maj. Luke Knittig, a spokesman for NATO's International Security Assistance Force. He said he didn't know how many insurgents were killed. Almost 5 years after Bush declared a Glorious Victory using the Northern Alliance we can’t walk any streets in this so-called liberated country. If the Nazi Occupation troops could walk in the streets of the countries they called Liberated, why cant we? ... http://www.cbsnews.com

Bush vowed on Saturday to stick with the war in Iraq and Democrats said they would fight for a new course in the conflict in a final weekend of campaigning ahead of Tuesday elections in which control of Congress is at stake. "I understand the consequences of retreat," Bush told thousands of Republican loyalists at a rally. "That's why we'll support our troops, that's why we'll fight in Iraq, and that's why we'll win in Iraq." He was unfazed by a heckler at the rally for Colorado Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (news, bio, voting record)'s re-election bid. "Get out of Iraq," the heckler shouted from a perch on a tractor before he was hustled out. Democrats, feeling good about their chances of seizing the Republican-controlled House of Representatives and possibly the Senate as well, said it was time for a change. It really is time for a change, but voting Democrat or Republican is not a change. Toss them all out. That is a change we all need. Just do it...http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/pl_nm/usa_elections_dc

In a report released Sat by Gov. George Pataki, a legal adviser said there is a case for removing embattled Comptroller Alan Hevesi from office but he needs more time to review the case before he could recommend removal proceedings. "It is my view that there is a valid legal basis for a recommendation to the Senate that the comptroller be removed & that aggravating circumstances of his conduct may very well warrant his removal from office," attorney David Kelley said in a report Pataki, released 3 days before Hevesi faces challenger J. Christopher Callaghan, a Republican, at the polls. "Nevertheless, without knowing the procedures the Senate will employ to hear the evidence, & until I have the opportunity to personally assess the witnesses & evidence I do not feel that I am now in a position to advise you to proceed with a recommendation to the Senate for the comptroller's removal.” If he broke the Law Jail him, we are tried of these SOBs getting just a slap on the wrist...http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-11-04-hevesi_x.htm?csp=34

A suspected terrorist who spent years in a secret CIA prison should not be allowed to speak to a civilian attorney, the Bush admin argues, because he could reveal the agency's closely guarded interrogation techniques. Human rights groups have questioned the CIA's methods for questioning suspects, especially following the passage of a bill last month that authorized the use of harsh but undefined interrogation tactics. In recently filed court documents, the Justice Dept said those methods, along with the locations of the CIA's network of prisons, are among the nation's most sensitive secrets. Prisoners who spent time in those prisons should not be allowed to disclose that information, even to a lawyer, the government said. What a bunch of crap, what they don’t want revealed is they used torture, and everyone involved in this sorry mess including up to our Village Idiot who likes to call himself the Commander in Chief trashed the Constitution. Is that a National Secret? ...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/04/national/main2153262.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._2153262

NATO troops fought suspected Taliban insurgents northeast of Kabul on Saturday, Afghan and NATO officials said, in the first major encounter in the area since the strict Islamist group's government was ousted in 2001.NATO officials said the clash in the Tagab valley, 70 km (45 miles) from the capital, erupted after an alliance convoy was attacked while hunting insurgents in the area, just east of the main U.S. base at Bagram airfield. No further details were immediately available. Speaking from a secret location, a Taliban spokesman said militants destroyed several NATO vehicles in the twisting valley, where rebel activity has picked up in recent weeks for the first time since a U.S.-led coalition overthrew the Taliban. NATO officials did not confirm the Taliban report. ...http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2628805

Thousands of people took to the streets across Taiwan on Saturday to demand President Chen Shui-bian's resignation over a corruption scandal that could land his wife in prison.Some 6,000 people marched in the southern city of Kaohsiung a day after prosecutors indicted Chen's wife, Wu Shu-chen, and three presidential aides on embezzlement, forgery and perjury charges. Wu was accused of siphoning $450,000 from a special diplomacy fund between 2002 and 2006.Prosecutors said there was a strong possibility Chen would also be indicted after leaving office. Under Taiwanese law, a sitting president is immune from such charges.Chen's Democratic Progressive Party demanded that the president explain himself within three days, and his spokesman, David Lee, said the president would face the public within two. Lee declined to discuss the content of Chen's planned speech, saying it was still being drafted....http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-11-04-taiwan_x.htm?csp=34